Sunday, July 17, 2016

Where Do Transgendered People Come From?

Like all the rest of us, they come from the heterosexual union of one man and one woman.

That's what struck me while pondering Connecticut's new regulations against genderism. What is genderism? Well, in one sense, it's the acknowledgement that all babies come from the union of one man and one woman. All of them. Every single one. With no exceptions. To take that fact and shape it into anything at all, according to the "experts" in Connecticut, is a bad thing.

According the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF), which published an LGBT glossary of more than 250 terms, the belief that there are only two genders — male and female — should be treated as “genderism.”

The guide, which was published as part of the DCF’s Safe Harbors Project and was last updated July 7, defines “genderism” as: “The system of belief that there are only two genders (men and women) and that gender is inherently tied to one’s sex assigned at birth. It holds cisgender people as superior to transgender people, and punishes or excludes those who don’t conform to society’s expectations of gender.”

In any case, the Q&A that is the title of this post popped into my head and it occurred to me that a fundamental flaw in the whole gender equality movement is its consequence, which is this underlying concept: I love people, but I am indifferent towards babies.

Being a homeschooler, I've got a natural advantage when people try to start on that junk-- I get all cold and nasty and growl that we are studying biology and science when we are talking about male and female, and to stop confusing my children by introducing unrelated items.

That's only if the cheerful burbling about eggs and sperm and cellular development doesn't work, though, and I've got a wonderfully mind-numbing chatter about male and female vs language terms like "gender" that goes RIGHT into them slowly familiarizing with Japanese and by that time people are chewing on their wrists to try to get out of the bear trap. :D